Spoilers under for anybody who hasn’t but watched Dexter: Resurrection’s glorious fourth episode on Showtime or through Paramount+ subscription, so be warned!
Wowzers after which some, guys. Dexter: Resurrection appeared prefer it was giving audiences extra of a singular storyline hinging solely on Michael C. Corridor’s back-from-retirement vigilante reconnecting along with his son after Harrison shot him in New Blood’s finale. (To the purpose the place it typically appeared like perhaps Harrison ought to have been the primary character.) However Episode 4, “Name me Crimson,” introduced out all the massive visitor stars and was a wonderful reminder of how unpredictable and delightfully bizarre this horror-soaked universe may be.
Having taken out the horrendously named rideshare-targeting Darkish Passenger in Episode 3, Dexter took on his sufferer’s persona and adopted his invitation to fulfill Peter Dinklage’s hyper-rich Leon Prater forward of his gathering of the ghouls. Which is the place we meet Krysten Ritter’s Mia “Girl Vengeance” Lapierre, Eric Stonestreet’s “Rapunzel”-monikered Al, David Dastmalchian’s brooding Gareth, a.okay.a. Gemini Killer, and Neil Patrick Harris’ skin-obsessed Lowell, the Tattoo Collector.
CinemaBlend talked to what’s maybe TV’s most morbid motley crew forward of the episode, as seen within the video above, and I realized a number of particulars in regards to the new killers, with Michael C. Corridor speaking about Dexter’s progress and the way wild a season this was for him.
David Dastmalchian, Eric Stonestreet And Krysten Ritter Speak Up Their Newly Launched Serial Killers
No different exhibits on the 2025 TV schedule characteristic a cabal of killers gathered collectively by a serial killer-obsessed benefactor, which might be good, as a result of Leon Prater would possible discover a technique to take these different teams out of the operating. He definitely has a knack for rounding up extremely disturbed people, as regular as they could appear sitting round a dinner desk.
Once I requested which of those newly launched killers was most annoying to the brand new solid members, David Dastmalchian teased some extraordinarily darkish scenes on the way in which for Trendy Household vet Eric Stonestreet, saying:
They’re all, it is like this neck-and-neck disturbing, neck-and-neck, disturbing. However there was one thing for me about getting to observe this gentleman when he introduced the darkish half of Al to life, and I used to be simply sitting a number of toes away from him,. He is an previous good friend of mine who’s a deeply variety, loving, beneficiant human being, and I am watching him go to a spot that I by no means thought I would get to see him go, and that made my pores and skin crawl, and I like that.
Eric Stonestreet is likely one of the extra affable celebs on the market, and infrequently performs characters who exude those self same vibes. I can not say that Al is not a genial dude, however the truth that he is on the market killing ladies and slicing their ponytails off as trophies would not precisely warrant a stamp of approval. I can not wait to see how sinister his story will get.
On the flip aspect of that coin, Stonestreet factors to Dastmalchian’s Gareth as being the creepiest. Not as a result of it comes as a shock, however as a result of it is precisely what one may count on. As he put it:
Very good of you. That exemplifies the kind of group of individuals we acquired the pleasure to work with. Everybody’s so good and supportive. I believe we have been all simply excited to dip our toes into this so clearly outlined world that Clyde and Scott and the others have created through the years – Michael. I might say, most likely, I imply, I am gonna throw it proper again at you. As a result of if it seems to be like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it could be a duck. So the place you could not see me coming from one million miles away, you see him coming from one million miles away, and there is one thing actually scary about considering what one thing is, after which it being that actual factor. So I might put Dave there.
Whereas I doubt Gareth’s Gemini Killer has something to do with precise geese, I can not assist however take into consideration him placing on a large duck go well with with a view to pull off his murders. There must be somebody like that on the market, proper?
Krysten Ritter teased her character by glorifying how non-disturbing she discovered Mia to be, regardless of her much less constructive attributes, and it appears like she had a blast within the function. In Ritter’s phrases:
I do not really feel disturbed by my character. I simply believed it, and I cherished taking part in her. She may be very scrumptious, very assured, very trendy, very glamorous, but additionally just a little psychotic and deranged. And it was a lot enjoyable to sink into that function, and I might play that character for years. It was like one of the best time I’ve ever had.
At this level, David Dastmalchian spoke as much as say how comfortable he was to lastly be sharing the display with long-time good friend Ritter in such a darkish venture, which she echoed simply as fortunately.
- DAVID DASTMALCHIAN: Can I say, Kristen and I’ve been mates for a very long time, and I’ve all the time felt like she’s my goth buddy, my goth niece, my goth little sister that I all the time wished to get to do one thing with creatively. And it was actually freaking cool to get to go play and be murderers collectively.
- KRYSTEN RITTER: You have been the primary… I wasn’t gonna say something but, however once I discovered that he was doing it, I used to be like, ‘We’re gonna get to work collectively lastly!’
Gotta love what number of smiles are being shared on a present the place a dude cuts individuals’s tattoos off of their our bodies.
Michael C. Corridor Feels Like This Season Was A ‘Bizarro, Twisted Superhero Film’
To be anticipated, Michael C. Corridor was simply as excited to get to combine it up with such a diverse group of personalities, even when he already needed to take certainly one of them out by the tip of the episode. (We’re actually hoping this storyline would not run out too shortly.) Once I requested if it was surreal to be standing above a visitor star like Neil Patrick Harris strapped right down to the kill desk, the actor responded with:
It was all surreal. Yeah, that was surreal. I imply, we’re so gratified that we have been capable of appeal to an ensemble of actors this season of the caliber that we did. I imply, it is a dice-roll going again in and revisiting this character and the world, and the truth that all these individuals joined us was fairly gratifying. We’re like, okay, you recognize, perhaps we’re on to one thing.
Once I talked about that I would not have anticipated Dexter to go away the flirtatious Mia as she showered simply to go and discover Lowell, Corridor acquired amusing out of me by pointing to his character’s maturity stage rising.
He is rising up, you recognize? He is made errors up to now of that nature which have gotten him and people round him in hassle. So yeah, he has a second of readability.
On the subject of Leon Prater’s huge assortment of serial killer trophies and having that be the brand new world that Dexter is now attempting to traverse alongside Harrison’s story, Michael C. Corridor advised me:
Yeah, it was superior. I imply, I really feel like this season sort of expands the window. It is extra viscerally human and undeniably kind of wealthy in that means, when it comes to his relationship along with his son and his internalized relationship along with his father. But it surely’s additionally simply extra wondrous and magical and insane and dreamlike, this world that Leon Prater has facilitated. Capturing that fourth episode, I felt like Dexter had been transported into some kind of bizarro, twisted superhero film. It was so wild.
Now that he is talked about superheroes, I am questioning how Dexter would fare on this planet of The Boys, and who he’d attempt to goal first. Or what if Dexter aimed to tackle Colin Farrell’s Penguin? There ought to at the very least be a comic book e-book collection tackling that crossover.
Discover out what Prater’s serial killer membership will get into subsequent when new Dexter: Resurrection episodes hit. Paramount+ each Friday, and air on Showtime on Sunday nights at 9:00 p.m. ET.